Connecting to RDS (Oracle) from Github Actions

I have a nodejs script which connects to an Oracle DB which is in a private VPC. I can run this script without any issues on my machine, and in a lambda. I need to run this from Github Action. I have stored DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD AND DB_CONNECTION in SECRETS and passing them to the js script. I am reading them as process.env…. in my script. I have verified the values. But when I try to get the connection, it never
connects and times out after 60 seconds printing this error:

Request exceeded “transportConnectTimeout” of 60 seconds.

If I have the DB credentials, but if the DB is in an AWS account in its own private VPC, do I need to do anything else to access it in Github Actions?

Thank you for any help!!

My yaml script:

name: DB Connection
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    environment: dev
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Set up Node.js
        uses: actions/setup-node@v2  # Set up Node.js
        with:
          node-version: '20.9'

      - name: Install dependencies
        run: npm install  

      - name: Run JS
        env:
          DB_USER: ${{ secrets.DB_USER }}
          DB_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.DB_PASSWORD }}
          DB_CONNECTION: ${{ secrets.DB_CONNECTION }}
        
        run: node ./src/test-db-connection.js

My JS (test-db-connection.js):

import oracledb from 'oracledb';

async function testConnection() {
    let connection;

    try {
    
    connection = await oracledb.getConnection({
            user: process.env.DB_USER,
            password: process.env.DB_PASSWORD,
            connectString: process.env.DB_CONNECTION,
        });

        console.log("Database connection successful!", connection);

    } catch (err) {
        console.error("Database connection failed:", err.message);
    } finally {
        if (connection) {
            try {
                await connection.close();
            } catch (err) {
                console.error('Error closing the connection:', err);
            }
        }
    }
}

testConnection();